Quantitative Methods in Reservoir Engineering

ISBN-13: 9780750675680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 480 str.

Chin; Wilson C. Chin

Opis

For the practitioner, this volume is a valuable tool for predicting reservoir flow in the most efficient and profitable manner possible, using quantitative methods rather than anecdotal and outdated methods. For the student, this volume offers insight not covered in other textbooks. Too many approaches in traditional petroleum engineering are based on "ad hoc" and "common sense" methods that have no rigorous mathematical basis. Most textbooks dealing with reservoir engineering do not go into the necessary mathematical detail and depth. This new book by Wilson Chin, a revision of two earlier books published by Gulf Publishing, Modern Reservoir Flow and Well Transient Analysis and Formation Invasion, integrates rigorous mathematical methods for simulating and predicting reservoir flow both near and away from the well.

• Predicts reservoir flow to maximize resources, time, and profits
• Includes problems and solutions for students
• Presents mathematical models in an easy-to-understand and easy-to-simulate format

Recenzje

"The material in this book is presented in a clear, easily understandable language. Every topic is supplied with specific examples, that help to demonstrate certain elements of the theory. ...having this book is a must for every reservoir engineer expecially for those who have to make decisions as to what simulating software to choose for a particular reservoir and situation." --Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Spis treści

Motivating Ideas and Governing EquationsFracture Flow AnalysisFlows Past Shaly BodiesStreamline Tracing and Complex VariablesFlows in Complicated GeometriesRadial Flow AnalysisFinite Difference Methods for Planar FlowsCurvilinear Coordinates and Numerical Grid GenerationSteady State Reservoir ApplicationsTransient Compressible FlowsEffective Properties in Single and Multiphase FlowsModeling Stochastic HeterogeneitiesReal and Artificial ViscosityBorehole Invasion, Lost Circulation, Time Lapse LoggingHorizontal, Deviated, and Modern Multilateral Well AnalysisFluid Mechanics of Invasion; Static and Dynamic FiltrationFormation Tester ApplicationsAnalytical Methods for Time Lapse Well Logging AnalysisComplex Invasion Problems: Numerical ModelingForward and Inverse Multiphase Flow Modeling

O autorze

Wilson C. Chin, PhD MIT, MSc Caltech, fluid mechanics, physics, applied math and numerical methods, has published twenty-five research books with John Wiley & Sons and Elsevier; more than 100 papers and 50 patents; and won 5 awards with the US Dept of Energy. He founded Stratamagnetic Software, LLC in 1997, an international company engaged in multiple scientific disciplines.